https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/amd/ Dated, sourced news items in the USASI catalog that mention AMD. Independent project. Not a United States government website. en-us Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/nvidia-contributes-vera-rubin-designs-to-ocp/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/nvidia-contributes-vera-rubin-designs-to-ocp/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT governance In an October 12, 2026 blog post tied to the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA said it contributed Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project through its MGX architecture. The post says NVIDIA joined AMD, Google, and Meta at OCP to publish a new open specification, and describes the Open Data Center Specification v0.7 as a blueprint for AI factory facility design. It says the OCP Grid Resilience Specification was published by Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, and that NVIDIA expanded DSX OS with open-source components for configuring networks and validating clusters, without naming a license for them. USASI has not reviewed the contributed designs or specifications. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/white-house-science-summit-genesis-consortium-partners/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/white-house-science-summit-genesis-consortium-partners/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT policy On October 8, 2026 the White House published a fact sheet on science initiatives announced at its "Science: A New Golden Age" summit. It says eleven industry partners committed SI-for-science tools and compute credits to the Genesis Mission Consortium, and names NVIDIA, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AMP, Emerald AI, AWS, Armada, Crusoe, and Micron. The same fact sheet says NIH, DOE, and Biohub launched a virtual biology initiative to build data and models for virtual cells. The fact sheet describes announcements and commitments rather than an executive order. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/amd-agrees-to-acquire-world-labs/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/amd-agrees-to-acquire-world-labs/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT acquisition AMD announced on September 28, 2026, that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the AI model and research lab that makes the Marble world-model product and the open-source Spark renderer. AMD says the transaction is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Until it closes, World Labs is listed as an independent company. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/lemonade-2026-39-1-adopts-calendar-versioning/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/lemonade-2026-39-1-adopts-calendar-versioning/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release The Lemonade project published Lemonade Server version 2026.39.1 on GitHub on September 23, 2026, three weeks after version 11.9.0. The release notes list a breaking change: the version format changed from X.Y.Z to YYYY.WW.N, so tools and scripts that parse version output or compare version strings must be updated. The release updates TheNoise to 0.7.1 with support for image editing and additional AMD GPUs, adds a /v1/docs endpoint for API reference documentation, and makes VRAM auto-eviction configurable. USASI has not tested this release. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/amd-releases-rocm-core-sdk-10-0/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/amd-releases-rocm-core-sdk-10-0/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release AMD published ROCm Core SDK 10.0.0 on August 26, 2026, as a release in the TheRock repository, which the release notes say has been ROCm's build and release system since ROCm 7.14. The notes say the release focuses on AI inference, developer tooling and profiling, and that it enables support for PyTorch 2.13.0, JAX 0.11.0 and 0.10.2, vLLM 0.27.0, SGLang 0.5.15, TensorFlow 2.21, MIGraphX 2.17 and ONNX Runtime 1.27.0. HIP adds inclusive and exclusive scan APIs to its cooperative groups library. The AMD SMI library has breaking changes: its major version is now 27.0.0, so software linked against libamd_smi.so.26 must be relinked. USASI has not tested this release. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/amd-agrees-to-acquire-taalas/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/amd-agrees-to-acquire-taalas/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT acquisition AMD announced on August 6, 2026, that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a company founded in 2023 and headquartered in Toronto that develops specialized silicon for AI inference. AMD says it plans to integrate Taalas' technology into its accelerator roadmap and to develop system-level solutions with AMD Instinct GPUs. The release says the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, and it does not give an expected closing date. USASI has not seen an announcement that the deal has closed. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/amd-releases-instella-moe/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/amd-releases-instella-moe/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release AMD introduced Instella-MoE in a ROCm blog post dated July 24, 2026: a mixture-of-experts language model with 16 billion total and 2.8 billion active parameters, trained from scratch on AMD Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs with the Primus and Miles frameworks. AMD says it is releasing model weights from every training stage, training configurations, data mixtures and code, and the Hugging Face checkpoints run from Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Pretrain to the reinforcement-learning-tuned Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think. AMD calls the model fully open, but the model card says the models are licensed for academic and research purposes under a ResearchRAIL license and are released for research purposes only. USASI has not tested the models.